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Having visited Comic Con and spent a day photographing, I actually ended up with some interesting pictures that I have used in my compositing. Here I have a scene with Storm Troopers and R2D2. The x-wing fighter is a picture of a plastic model of my son’s. The landscape is 2 different rock formations pieced together. Add a moon and it looks like it could be a desert planet from Star Wars.

Although I hate the cold, you have to love how the trees get transformed with a little snow and frost. Here are 2 recent composites where I’ve used a few shots from a recent snow. This is just 5 layers, the foreground a hill near the new park on 22nd in Loveland, the row of trees from a subdivision above Lon Hegler Reservoir, the right tree from a school yard behind McDonalds, and a sunset including the foothills not far […]

Once I create something I like, it’s always fun to experiment and see how alterations change the mood. Here are 5 installments after my first which can be found in the previous post. Here is the first which may have lacked balance, but still created the surreal effect I was after. Here the geese are on the opposite side. Here I’ve added steam and shifted the geese slightly and flipped the smoke. Here we are with a sunset, shadows and […]

Photo shoots are generally in a studio and seldom have an interesting backdrop. Thus compositing. The following images bring the subjects into the great outdoors with additional elements. Approaching is my latest as of 12-09-2015. The engine was taken several years back at the railroad museum in Golden, CO. The tracks are from Loveland. The geese were from a fieldtrip at a wildlife area in east Fort Collins. The prairie is near the Badlands in South Dakota. The girl is […]

On Deviant Art there is plenty of inspiration to explore new ideas. Space art can be a challenge, and often the results aren’t exactly what I was shooting for. However, sense I put in the effort I’m inclined to share simply because I’ve done the work. Here are the end results of 3 recent attempts. Hell’s landing was by far the simplest. I’ve stretched the aspect ratio of a shot of Hell’s Half Acre in Wyoming. This is the place […]

So this was fun. Sunsets are about my favorite thing, but alone they are only colorful, but often lack interest. Add some trees and Wow. This first image is 2 part with a tree from the Oregon Coast and a Loveland, CO sunset. The second is a tree from Rocky Mountain National Park, slightly altered, a foreground from a rocky hill near St. George, Utah, and once again a Loveland, CO sunset. Simple but about all the color you’d ever […]

I’ve only made it to the Bisti once and for a very short time. Arizona was having wildfires and the wind was blowing. Not a pleasant day. Nevertheless I got some amazing shots, and many of the features were outside the Bisti boundaries. This composite is basically two part, the Bisti foreground and a Space Art sky from my library. The sky consists of several hundred layers.

Sylvan Lake, located near Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota, is one of those wonderful scenic spots that has probably been photographed a million times. This composite is strictly make-believe because I’m pretty sure the moon wouldn’t come up where I have it. This is what it might look like if it did.

Occasionally it’s fun to look at what I haven’t published, and perhaps put a new look on an older image. So it is with Courthouse Rainbow, an early morning shot that benefited from an interesting sky and a smattering of color.

I love water for its reflective quality. So much of the time when photographing a pond, lake, river or ocean, the water is too rough or rippled to give a mirror like reflection. In Photoshop it hardly matters. Rotate and flip anything that reflects and make it as sharp or blurred as you want it. Here are 2 recent examples. The first is Bandon beach in Oregon. This is a mid-afternoon shot, yet lends itself to a sunset shot by […]